Ministry of Mines Recognizes Two more Centres of Excellence under the National Critical Mineral Mission

Key Points

1. Ministry of Mines recognized 2 more Centres of Excellence (CoE) under the National Critical Mineral Mission (NCMM).
2. The newly recognized institutes are Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore and Centre for Materials for Electronics Technology (C-MET), Hyderabad.
3. The Project Approval and Advisory Committee (PAAC) approved the recognition on 24.10.2025.
4. The PAAC meeting was co-chaired by Shri Piyush Goyal, Secretary, Ministry of Mines, and Prof. Abhay Karandikar, Secretary, Department of Science & Technology.
5. Each CoE will operate on a Hub & Spoke model, requiring at least two industry partners and two R&D/academic partners.
6. The 9 recognized CoEs have brought in around 90 industry and academic/R&D spokes.